England’s New Lenses: Shortlist
…to me.’ Francesca Gnoato, Untitled Joss Matthews, ‘This Photograph is from my series Ex Mare Dei Gratia which is Canvey Island’s Coat of Arms, meaning ‘From the Sea, by the…
…to me.’ Francesca Gnoato, Untitled Joss Matthews, ‘This Photograph is from my series Ex Mare Dei Gratia which is Canvey Island’s Coat of Arms, meaning ‘From the Sea, by the…
The diary was found to belong to the soldier, Leenert Hasenbosch, who one year earlier was left as a prisoner on the island as a punishment for sodomy. The diary…
…couple pics. Or any pics at all, unless they’re untagged, which is a form of mystery too. Withholding information can occur through choices made at capture time, using shadow, light,…
…desert in the world, where living conditions are averse. Within more than five hundred mining sites, a cemetery of plastic bottles and a pile of old tires are mere examples…
…on the crowds mourning Robert Kennedy, and Richard Misrach’s desert scenes. A couple of features stand out in that selection: the first is that (with the exception of Warhol, arguably,…
…was in search of more dramatic landscapes to photograph. I flew to the Canary Islands with Richard, a fellow photography student, and then on to Nouâdhibou in southern Western Sahara….
…an ideal place, but its genesis reveals a more complicated story. In 1516 Thomas More published Utopia, a story about a newly discovered island society. Utopia was a place where…
…island of that name which was turned from a barren rock into a lush verdant oasis through environmental manipulation. Contemporary space scientists cite Ascension island as an example of terraforming…
…in Caracas and Margarita Island, until the crisis there reached a new low. I haven’t been back since 2016. A few years ago while doing an artist residency in Mexico…
…Rhode Island Historical Society exhibition of colonial girls’ embroidery samplers. Historically, “virtue” relates to a woman’s chastity and moral uprightness, and I began thinking about how the definition of women’s…
With this body of work I intend to document my experience and visionary interpretation of the island of Lanzarote and its unique landscape. In Lanzarote, I create a visual world…
…ancient high culture. A stronghold for tourism. An embodiment of the 2011 Arab Revolution. But there is another Egypt. The Sinai. 61,100 km2 in area. A vast desert peninsula. An…
…a residency for other creative thinkers. View this post on Instagram From #deepsee to #desert… my book called #automagic is #transformed to a space #booktospace #show right now…
…stands between the interior and an outside world, a similar daunting construction site in a desert-like landscape. We are witnessing two worlds on the brink of collapse while they are…
…known for its fertility into a desert. Many of the wildfires in this region are actually manmade disasters, he adds, set as vengeance, or to access government funding, or even…
…attitude in serious science, too. Maria Reiche had researched the Nazca lines in Peru for ages. She decided to publish The Mystery of the Desert – which turned out to…
…Channel. All presumably intended to suggest an I-was-there authenticity: one of the assassins, for example, was wearing ‘a shirt and trousers in Desert Digital Camouflage, and carried a silenced Sig…
…satellite dishes spread out of its ruined balconies like desert flowers. [ms-protect-content id=”8224, 8225″] I capture the act of looking back at the snapshot from Sarajevo, taken right after the…
Vast environmental panoramas have been a part of Zoe Childerley’s practice for some time, cataloguing people and their landscapes from the Mojave desert to the Scottish borders. She has travelled…
…explores Britain’s geography as an island, the ongoing refugee crisis and photography’s role in the construction of national identity. 1.00 – 1.15 Introduction: A New Europe, Shoair Mavlian 1.15 –…
…upholding an illusion of it being a complete entity reveals this as an ongoing enquiry that will never reach its zenith. Each story in myth is an island in a…